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Twilio is aligning with Google's Cloud Platform to spread the use of its application programming interface among developers. "This makes it the first time that a voice and messaging API-based solution has been integrated with the Google App Engine, giving developers on the platform ... the ability to integrate voice and messaging services into their Web and mobile apps by way of a few lines of code," Ingrid Lunden writes. For Google, the move neutralizes the advantage of Amazon Web Services, Parse and Microsoft's Azure, which had previously integrated with Twilio.

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Google said it is developing a mobile payment platform that will integrate into Android devices. Android Pay will be an API-based interface that will allow for payments in third-party applications and at brick-and-mortar stores.

Google released a new monitoring API that allows the public to track metrics on Google cloud devices. Users can pull up real-time data on CPU usage and disk I/O, and they can move third-party monitoring systems into the cloud platform. In addition, Google's Wayne Piekarski announced that the company would include a watch-face API in its Wear platform in the near future.

Google has released its Maps Android API v2 that has Street View capabilities and more development options for indoor maps. Google is continuing its elimination of Netscape Plug-in APIs from its Chrome Web Store in an effort to eliminate the problematic code that is often not supported on mobile devices.

WhatsApp might be considered a legitimate threat to wireless carrier business now that the messaging application has reached a 250 million active user base, Dara Kerr writes. Then again, carriers might see the glass half full, that the messaging app is driving smartphone and data-plan adoption, according to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum.

Rebtel is releasing an application programming interface for integrating Voice-over-Internet-Protocol voice communications within apps, with no charge to developers. Use of the API is likely to take even more voice business away from mobile carriers, as Rebtel-enabled apps would use cheaper data networks within mobile plans, Ingrid Lunden writes. The Swedish company said it expects to have as many as 15 million users by year's end.